Dont waste your money mate, i used to weigh all my pellets and it doesn't change a thing, ask all the top shots if they do it and i think the answer will be no, I know a top FT shooter who picks pellets off the ground if he finds some and loads up and bang down it goes:shot:. only my opinion mate.

Dont waste your money mate, i used to weigh all my pellets and it doesn't change a thing, ask all the top shots if they do it and i think the answer will be no, I know a top FT shooter who picks pellets off the ground if he finds some and loads up and bang down it goes:shot:. only my opinion mate.

G

Click to expand...

To be fair, if Calps sees pellets being dropped, he's that quick off the mark that they hit the back of his head on the way down

Meticulous pellet preparation is essential to success.
Carefully select the desired tin and with one hand holding the bottom of the tin (so they don't spill), use the other hand to remove the red sticky label, long unbitten finger nails are best. Now comes the most important part, find somewhere smooth so that you can stick the red tape for reapplication to the tin, ensuring it doesn't tangle which can be a pain to sort. Now remove the lid and using good judgement and hand eye coordination empty the aquired amount into your pellet pouch.
Replace the lid and carefully stick the tape back on again, making sure that the triangular end goes on last, this will make it easy to redo the whole process again.

This method will give good results, and more time to practice than fannying about with scales!

Meticulous pellet preparation is essential to success.
Carefully select the desired tin and with one hand holding the bottom of the tin (so they don't spill), use the other hand to remove the red sticky label, long unbitten finger nails are best. Now comes the most important part, find somewhere smooth so that you can stick the red tape for reapplication to the tin, ensuring it doesn't tangle which can be a pain to sort. Now remove the lid and using good judgement and hand eye coordination empty the aquired amount into your pellet pouch.
Replace the lid and carefully stick the tape back on again, making sure that the triangular end goes on last, this will make it easy to redo the whole process again.

This method will give good results, and more time to practice than fannying about with scales!

Click to expand...

You forgot the most important thing Conor, you MUST used sized pellets, the shop i buy mine from sizes them for me, he checks the tin has .177 written on it somewhere

Air rifle pellet weighing (0.01g) is much better than the one about which you are asking for. I have been used for 3 years and it was quite satisfactory with its results.
I was wondering around to have a good pellet scale and reached at an online scale provider providing this one i go through the description and found it very useful so i take it and was very happy with its results.

Not sure if Graham is correct there as i iknow a lot of top shots who weigh, A really good set is the gempro 250 but not cheap. I have a set that gave the exact reading 50 times in a row for the same pellet when i was testing it. I go through phases with weighing, for example a good tin of pellets will give a 12fps spread on the chrono from lightest to heaviest so it's really down to removing any doubt about the pellets and instilling confidence.I currently have an excellent batch of pellets that will group sub 10mm at 40yards which is more than enough for HFT. Therefore i'm not currently weighing. I have weighed in the past and tend to do 2 tins at a time with my pellet groups being approx 0.02 apart, for example, i put out a piece of A4 paper and sort groups 8.36, 8.38, 8.40, 8,42 and so on. It's accurate, time consuming but as interesting as watching paint dry

As i've said i don't currently weigh but i think that i might do a couple of tins an then compare the groups for weighed and unweighed pellets from the same batch.

If anyone that knows me in the NEFTA region or UKAHFT would like to experiment with pellet weighing then drop me a PM and you can borrow my scales for a couple of weeks.

I don't weigh pellets at all now but I flirted with it a few years back.

I have a set of "Accura" jewellers' scales, that measure to 0.01gn. They seem pretty accurate and repeatable. I don't know who makes them but got them in a group buy off the BBS around 2006/2007 and paid around £30 IIRC.

I've just done a test on five pellets.

JSB Express 4.52, nominal weight 7.9gr, or 7.87 for fetishists of spurious accuracy
After each weighing of the five I turned off the scales, blew on the little pan to remove any potential dust, and turned them on again so they zeroed.

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Column 4

Column 5

Column 6

Column 7

0

Pellet

1

2

3

4

5

1

1st weigh

7.89

7.84

7.82

7.85

7.85

2

2nd weigh

7.90

7.92

3

post "tare"

7.85

7.82

7.87

7.85

4

3rd weigh

7.90

7.87

7.81

7.85

7.82

The second weighing of pellet 2 seemed a bit high, and it didn't return quite to zero afterwards, so I pressed the "tare" button to re-zero them and re-weighted it

I think that's more than acceptable accuracy for weighing lead slugs to shoot tin chickens with!

For whoever is interested, the batch is 35000010, they're mega, and if anybody has any more of them let me know as I'm on my last tin!

Its not only the weight you have to be careful about,the consistant tail dia is just as (if not more) important. Pity you can't get the Bics you could get in the 80,s.
Nice way of checking pellet consistancy. HERX77 .